A performance of the poem, 'Checking Out Me History' by the poet John Agard, in a secondary school setting. This is from the BBC series, Poets in Person. This short film will be relevant for teaching ...

A poem about violence has been dropped from the English GCSE syllabus after a complaint. Education For Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy describes a person with a knife who wants to "play God" because they ...

A violent poem has been dropped from an English GCSE syllabus due to fears about teenage knife crime. The AQA exam board has withdrawn Education For Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy, which begins with the ...

The sheer volume of material required for your English GCSE can be overwhelming for even the most confident candidate. You will have been expected to tackle books, poems and plays over the two-year ...

The first line in our history book, I seem to remember, was, "West Indian history begins in 1492 with the arrival of Columbus." It's that very Eurocentric view. Nothing exists until the European has ...